Friday round-up

At USA Today, Richard Wolf reports that “[a]fter 10 years on the Supreme Court, [Justice Sonia] Sotomayor, 65, is not only its most outspoken questioner – succeeding the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who inspired today’s ‘hot bench’ – but its most frequent public speaker and most prolific author,” whose “voice, in all its forms, has become the liberal conscience on a conservative court.”

David Morgan reports at Reuters that “[t]he U.S. agency responsible for preserving government records said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump and former President George W. Bush can review a request by House Democrats for the records of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.”

At The National Law Journal (registration may be required), Marcia Coyle reports that “Stanford Law School professor Pamela Karlan is set to be at the U.S. Supreme Court lectern Oct. 8 to argue [in two consolidated cases] that federal civil rights law protects employees from job discrimination because of their sexual orientation”; Coyle notes that although consolidated cases “sometimes present the sensitive question of who will argue, … there was no real disagreement on how to proceed by the lawyers for the Title VII plaintiffs in the two cases.”

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